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Many Household Effects Will
Be Sold by Famous
Auctioneer.
BY LOUIS M. LYONS.
•pedal Dispatch to The Star.
NORTHAMPTON. Mass., April 11
(NAN.A).—George Bean is getting
out circulars for the auction sale of
the furniture that Calvin Coolidge
bought when he married the blithe
young school teacher from the Clark
School and took half of a house on
Massasoit street.
There's the oak bedroom set of
30 years ago. There’s the mission
desk and chair that Mr. Coolidge
used when he was running for mayor.
There’s a cradle that Col. Coolidge
made that may have rocked a Pres
ident. Bean doesn’t know whether
it did or not. A plain pine cradle,
dark with age.
It's going to be quite an auction—
admission by ticket—Thursday. May
7, at 10:30 a.m.. at the arena of the
Smith School, that holds nearly 2.000
standing.
Auctioneer Bean knew Mr. Coolidge
a long time. Mrs. Coolidge has been
to his auctions. Once she attended
a Bean auction for three days, tl ran
four days. "Are you enjoying your
self?" asked the friendly auctioneer
one noontime. "If I wasn't, I wouldn’t
have come here for three days,”
laughed the widow of the President.
Rest People Attend.
A George H. Bean auction is like that.
Bean has tried to run auctions on
a nigher plane, and the best people
come and bring their knitting along.
His big sales go off like social events,
almost like lawn fetes. People remark
about it.
There'll be a pile of people at this
one. Twenty-five circulars are going
out. to a selected list. Very nice cir
culars, expensive, too. The printing
on the tickets is almost like engrav
ing They’ll do tor souvenirs and
when one buys a Coolidge article,
the price of the ticket will be applied
to the purchase.
If Mrs. Coolidge hadn t been to
one of his auctions and realized his
reputation for square dealing. George
Bean doesn't believe she'd ever have
trusted him to sell her things. He
doesn't want anybody to get the
impression that this auction will sell
all the Coolidge things. Only a small
part: The old things from Massasoit
street and a few from the Beeches.
“I dont want people coming a
long distance feeling there’s quan
tities of stuff," says Bean, "but I
realize that thousands of people would
like something out of there. There's
plenty of items and plenty of people
are going to own them."
Sends $5 for Souvenir.
A lady in New York has sent George
Bean a $5 bill, all she can afford,
she says, and she asks him to get
her some little Coolidge souvenir. A
boy in New Jersey sent the North
hampton postmaster a request to get
him something for his Coolidge col
lection. Somebody sent George Bean a
blank check for a ticket.
George Bean will take care of these
requests if they don't get too many
to handle.
How Mrs Coolidge came around
to having this auction is an interest
ing story. She never meant to do it.
It took a lot of persuading by George
Bean.
Mrs. Coolidge, of course, is selling
the Breeches that Mr. Coolidge bought
after they came back from Wash
ington She's going to live with her
chum, Mrs. Florence Bannar Adams,
who is seeing Europe with her now.
Mrs. Coolidge has spent the last two
Winters at Mrs. Adams' place in
North Carolina, and Summers she
stays a lot of the time at Mrs.
Adams’ Northhampton house. She
won't need all the furniture from
the Beeches, not to speak of the
old oak and mission things from Mas
easoit street days.
Bean Wins Argument.
It wasn't as auctioneer, but as a
second-hand furniture dealer that
Mrs. Coolidge called up George Bean
last Fall.
Mrs. Coolidge had some furniture
to sell. When George Bean knew
what she meant, it must have put
a strain upon his professional re
straint. “I know an awful nice way
to handle that, Mrs. Coolidge,” he
Ventured.
"You mean an auction,” she guessed.
“You see." said Bean, “if I was
to make you an offer for this stuff,
it would be a ridiculous figure. As
6econd-hand furniture it would be
no better and no worse than the
other stuff in my place—without any
Identity."
“I want it to lose its identify,"
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And she meant It-too. She and;
Mrs. Adams were busy tearing fly
leaves out of books that bore signa
tures of people who had presented
them to Calvin Coolidge.
Bean had an inspiration. “Suppose
you didn’t have the sale here, but
let me take the things up to my
place and sell them at an auction
next Spring."
“Well, if it wasn’t for the publicity
I might let you,’’ Mrs. Coolidge said.
' Well you’ve had lots of that,”
persuaded Bean.
“Grace, you don't really care,"
•uggested Mrs. Adams.
“O, I don't suppose I do.” Mrs.
Coolidge said at last. “What do
people do with things they don’t
need? They don’t throw them away
or give them away. They sell them,
cf course.”
So George Bean will sell them.
Treasure for Philatelist.
Among the items for sale is an
envelope, addressed to him in long
hand by Mrs. Coolidge, that inclosed
the list for the sale, with her signa
ture written up in the comer in
place of a stamp. As a President’s
widow she has and exercises the
franking privilege by signing her
hame to her envelopes. Bean thinks
that will be a treasure for some
philatelist.
With every item sold will go a
certificate of its genuineness signed
by Bean and sealed by his notary
seal. The certificate is 4 by 3
inches long and has a background in
light green, with pictures of the
Massasoit street flat and the Breeches.
There are many little things as
Well as the suites of sitting room
and bed room furniture. There are
books, china, bric-a-brac, preserev
Jars, crocks, vases, a washing machine,
a set of book shelves that Coolidge
used as a student at Amherst, the
large star that topped the Coolidge
Christmas trees, a chest presented
Coolidge by President Machado of
Cuba, painted rockers, a hand uphol
stered sofa from the Massasoit street
siting room and many other items
that once seemed precious to the
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wife of Calvin Coolidge, but are now
; surplus goods.
Northampton feels sure, however,
it will keep Mrs. Coolidge. even after
she sells the Breeches. She has ties
here. She's trustee of the Clarke
School for the deaf. In January she
i accepted re-election to the Standing
Committee of the Edwards Congre
gational Church where she's been
a lifelong communicant. She is active
! on the Music Committee of the
j church, too. and a very faithful
I church-goer when she's in Northamp
ton. She attended Sunday service
right up to the week before she
1 sailed with Mrs. Adams for Italy.
(Copyright. 1036. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
I THE WEATHER
District of Columbia—Cloudy, pre
ceded by showers this morning, fair
in the afternoon; tomorrow fair, not
much change in temperature: mod
erate southwest, shifting to northwest
winds.
Maryland and Virginia—Cloudy,
probably showers today; tomorrow
fair, not much change in temperature.
West Virginia—Partly cloudy, pos
sibly preceded by showers in extreme
east and extreme south portions to
day; tomorrow partly cloudy, followed
by showers in northwest portion; not
much change in temperature.
Report Until 10 P.M. Saturday.
Midnight_47 12 noon_60
3 a m. _45 2 D m. _60
4 a m. _ 45 4 p.m. _ 58
(i a m. _ 45 6 p.m. 57
8 a.m. _ 47 8 D m. _53
10 a m. _65 10 p.m. _50
Record Until 10 P.M. Saturday.
Highest 60, 1 p.m. yesterday. Year ago,
54.
Lowest, 44. 5:45 am. yesterday. Year
ago, 41.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 76. on March 30.
Lowest. 0. on January 23.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow
High_11:34 a.m. 12m3 a m
Low ___ 5:33 a.m. 6:14 a.m.
Hljh ..- __p m. 12:24 p.m.
Low _ 6:33 p.m. 7:19 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today_ 5:36 6:42
Sun. tomorrow__ 5:35 6:43
Moon, today_ _ 8:5/ p.m.
Automoone asms must De turneo on
one-half hour after sunset
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In Inches In the
Capital icurrent month to date):
Month. 1930. Average. Record.
January _ 5.87 3.55 7.09 8u
February__ 3.83 3.27 6.84 84
March_ 4.47 3.76 8.84 91
April_l.DIJ 3.27 9.13 89
May _ ... 3.70 10.69 '89
June _ 4.13 10.94 'OO
July _ 4.71 10.63 80
August__ 4.01 14.41 ’28
September _ 3.24 17.45 '34
October_ 2.84 8.67 ’85
November__ 2.37 8.69 '89
December _ 3.32 7.66 '01
Weather in Various Cities.
Precipt
—Temperature-, tation.
Max. Min. 8 pm.
Sat- Fri. Sat. to
. . „ urday.night.8p m. 8p.m.
Asheville. N. C_ 64 44 50 _
Atlanta. Ga_ 62 48 68 _
Atlantic City. N J. 54 42 44 0.82
Baltimore. Md_ 60 44 54 0.20
Birmingham. Ala... 68 46 62 _
Bismarck. N. Dak.. 56 34 52 _
Boston. Mass- 40 40 36 0.46
Buffalo. N. Y_ 34 34 34 0.16
Chicago, til_ 62 40 50 0.02
Cincinnati Ohio_ 68 42 52 _
Cheyenne. Wyo_ 66 36 62 _
Cleveland. Ohio_ 48 36 48 0.06
Davenport. Iowa_ 64 44 56 _
Denver. Colo_ 72 44 70 _
Des Moines. Iowa_ 64 46 58 _
Detroit. Mich_ 50 38 46 0.20
Duluth. Minn_ 52 32 46 0.02
El Paso. Tex_ 86 60 84 _
Galveston. Tex_ 72 60 68 _
Helena. Mont_ 66 46 64 _
Indianapolis, Ind._ 62 42 60 0.01
Jacksonville. Fla_ 80 60 70 0.01
Kansas City. Mo._ 70 48 66 _
Little Rock. Ark... 80 40 78 _
Los Aneeles. Calif.. On 52 76 _
Louisville. Ky- 62 40 54 0.08
Marquette, Mich... 48 34 40 _
Memphis Tenn_ 70 46 60 _
Miami. Fla_ 84 72 78
Minneapolis, Minn. 54 40 54 0.12
Mobile. Ala_ 72 52 68 _
New Orleans. La._ 74 56 70 _
New York N. Y_ 58 42 54 0.35
North Platte. Nebr. 70 38 68 _
Omaha. Nebr_ 68 48 64 _
Philadelphia. Pa... 68 42 54
Phoenix. Ariz_ 96 56 94 _
Pittsburgh. Pa- 48 42 46 0.12
Portland. Me_ 40 40 34 0.67
Portland. Oreg_ 70 52 70 _
Salt Lake City. Utah 76 44 72
9t Louis. Mo- 62 46 56 0.10
San Antonio. Tex_86 58 82 _
San Diego. Calif_ 66 50 60 _
3an Francisco. Caltf. 84 56 82 _
Santa Fe. N. Mex... 70 36 66
Savannah. Ga- 74 58 66 _
Seattle Wash_ 64 52 64 ___
Springfield. Ill_ 68 44 58
Tampa. Fla_ 80 66 68 _
Vicksburg Miss._ 74 48 70 _
WASHINGTON D.C. 60 44 63 0.25
Soviets Like Shakespeare.
Shakespeare and Balzac are the
most admired men of letters in Soviet
Russia today.
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Coolidge Relics on Block
Upper: Among the many items from the estate of the late
former President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. which will be sold
at auction May 7, will be the large cut glass vase pictured here
in the hands of Ruth Vollinger. The ornamentations on the vase
and. its base are of gold.
Lower: An old rustic rocker, a favorite of the late former
President when he was at home at the Beeches, also to go. He
was often observed seated in the chair smoking a cigar.
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Dallas Police Nab Doyle,
Sought Since 1933 in
Alton, ill., Case.
My the Associated Press.
DALLAS, April 11.—Dallas police
today arrested a man they said was
Lloyd (Blackiei Doyle of St. Louis,
sought since 1933 in connection with
the kidnaping of August Luer, aged
Alton, 111., resident.
The suspect was arrested as he
rode in an automobile with a woman
in a residential section.
Luer was kidnaped from his home
at Alton in 1933 by desperadoes, who
knocked Mrs. Luer to the floor when
she attempted to interfere.
The kidnapers held Luer for five
days before freeing him in Southern
Illinois. So far as Federal authori
ties learned, the kidnapers received
no ransom.
Doyle, who gave another name
when arrested, was identified by a
Federal record with his photograph
and fingerprints.
Doyle made no resistance in the
face of several automatic rifles.
SEES CASE “WOCNp CP."
Arrest of Doyle Held Final Action in
Kidnaping.
EDWARDSVILLE. 111., April 11 (A>).
—State’s Attorney Lester Geers to
night said the arrest of Lloyd
(Blackie) Doyle at Dallas. Tex.,
‘‘wound up” the August Luer kidnap
case.
“Doyle himself was not one of the
kidnapers,” Geers said, “but he was
one of the men who guarded Mr.
Luer for the kidnap gang.”
T.npr napri ranitnlicf uruc cnofnVioH
forcibly from his home June 10, 1933,
and held prisoner in a dungeon under
a farm shed for five days while the
kidnapers bargained with his family
for payment of a $100,000 ransom.
Later the demands were reduced to
$75,000, but Luer finally was released
without payment.
Seven of the Luer kidnapers are in
prison, four serving life terms. A
ninth fugitive—Mrs. Vivian Chase—
was found dead several months ago
in a car parked behind a Kansas City
hospital, presumably the victim of
gangland bullets.
Justice Hughes, 74
Yesterday, Passes
Event Unnoticed
By the Associated Press.
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
was 74 yesterday, but declared himself
“not interested” in the date and took
but little note of it.
“I am going along without reference
to the calendar,” he said. “I am not
interested in my birthday anniversary.
I don’t want to talk about it.”
That was the reply relayed to news
paper men in response to a request for
an interview. He would take no fur
ther “Judicial notice" of the occasion.
Despite his years, the Chief Justice
has not missed an hour from his duties,
because of illness, since appointed
head of the court by President Hoover
in 1930.
Friends say his strenuous life has
left him far more vigorous and alert
than most men 20 years younger. He
has been Governor of New York,
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, Republican nominee for Presi
dent in 1916 and Secretary of State.
The busy Jurist worked at home
until shortly before noon, then went
to the court building to attend the
usual Saturday conference with his
colleagues to dispose of pending
business.
After that he returned home. It
was said no special birthday anniver
sary ceremony was planned.
Assigned to Aircraft Carrier
Ranger—Other Navy
Officers Shifted.
Assignment of Capt. Patrick N. L.
Bellinger, pioneer Navy flyer, to com
mand the new aircraft carrier Ranger,
was outstanding among a number of
changes an
nounced by the
Navy Department
yesterday.
Eighteen new
captains, seven
new lieutenant
commanders and
17 new lieutenants
chosen by selec
tion boards and
approved by
President Roose
velt were formally
designated.
A new rear
admiral in the
, Capt. Btllinaer.
Navy Construc
tion Corps will be picked by a selec
tion board ordered convened April 27.
Capt. Bellinger at present is ad
ministrative and executive head of
the Bureau of Aeronautics. In 1914
he was in charge of the aviat.on de
tachment at Vera Cruz. Mexico. He
commanded the NC-1 trans-Atlantic
flight in 1919.
Capt. John H. Hoover will relinquish
his command of the Langley in June
to attend the Army War College. He
will be succeeded by Capt. Archibald
H. Douglas. Capt. A. B Cook will
leave the command of the aircraft
carrier Lexington to become chief of
the Bureau of Aeronautics, with the
rank of rear admiral. He will succeed
Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, who
will become commander of aircraft of
the Base Force.
Other Changes Announced.
Other changes include; Transfer of
Capt. John H. Towers from command
of the Naval Air Station at San Diego
to chief of staff to the commander,
Aircraft. Battle Force; Capt. Arthur
L. Bristol, jr., from command of the
Ranger to the San Diego post; Capt.
Aubrey W. Fitch to command of the
Lexington; Capt. Albert C. Read from
command of the U. S. S Wright to
assistant chief of the Bureau of
Aeronautics here, and retirement of
Capt. Frank R McCrary, present
holder of the latter post.
The new captains, all in the Medi
cal Corps, are William Edward Eaton,
Lester L. Pratt, Harry E. Jenkins,
John J. O'Malley, Willard J. Riddick,
Chester M. George. Luther Sheldon,
jr.; Richard H. Laning, Robert G.
Davis. John T. Borden, Carroll R.
Baker, Daniel Hunt, Claude W. Carr,
John F. Riordan. Frederick Ceres,
Jesse B. Helm. George C. Rhoadea
and John C. Parham.
Three Medical Corps commanders
were designated for the retention list,
Micajah Boland, Edward V. Valz and
Alexander B. Hayward.
Seven Lieutenant Commanders.
The seven new lieutenant com
manders are; Christian P. Schwarz,
Joseph E, Bolt, Errett R. Feeney, John
K. Lynch, George W. Bauemschmidt.
Austin S. Keeth and Walter B. Gist,
all in the Supply Corps.
The 17 lieutenants, junior grade,
promoted to the rank of lieutenant,
are Charles J. Naumilket, Preston G.
Locke. Byron C. Gwinn. Calvin B.
White, Louie L. Lindenmayer, James
S. Bierer, Donald S Gordon. Walter
N. Gray, John W. Haines, Elmer A.
Chatham. Allan M. Gray, Ernest C.
Collins, Henry S. Cone. Charles A.
Meeker, Milton C. Dickinson, J. K.
Chisholm and William J. Laxon, also
in the Supply Corps.
The names of 132 lieutenants in
the Medical Corps chosen for advance
ment to lieutenant commander will be
announced tomorrow.
Admiral William H. Standley. chief
of naval operations and Acting Secre
tary of the Navy, announced the per
sonnel of the new selection board as
follows:
Rear Admiral John G. Tawresey,
president: Rear Admiral John D.
Beuret, Rear Admiral George H. Rock.
Rear Admiral Horatio G. Gillmor and
Rear Admiral Richard M. Watt. With
the exception of the last named, all
are on the retired list of the Navy.
Lieut. Comdr. Edmund E. Brady, jr.,
will be recorder of the board.
rAnLtl WILL STUDY
CONTROL OF FLOODS
Rivers and Harbors Congress
Committee to Consider Other
Water Problems.
Flood control, navigation, irriga
tion. general soil erosion, water con
servation and power projects through
out the United States, its territories
and possessions will be considered by
the Projects Committee of the Na
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress
at meetings April 24 and 25 at the
Mayflower Hotel. The sessions will
precede the thirty-first annual con
vention of the Congress, April 27
and 28.
The largest attendance in the his
tory of the waterway body is expected
because of the Nation-wide interest
in flood control and water conserva
tion problems. Delegates to the con
ference have been appointed by the
Governors of nearly all States and
by mayors of scores of cities, presi
dents of chambers of commerce, agri
cultural, labor, industrial and water
way associations.
Prevention and control of floods
predominate among the plans sub
mitted to the committee as a result
of the recent widespread flood dis
asters.
BOY HELD AS CHURCH
POOR BOX IS EMPTIED
Youth Found Crouching Inside
St. Patrick's After Burglar
Alarm Sounds.
Albert Nachet, 16, of Lake Charles,
La., was arrested late last night In
connection with the reputed rifling of
a poor box at St. Patrick’s Church,
Tenth and G streets. He had $3.27 in
his possession, police said, and the
poor box was empty.
Summoned to the church by a
burglar alarm, first precinct officers
said they found the youth crouching
just inside the edifice.
Investigators were unable to de
termine how entrance was gained, the
doors showing no signs of having been
"jimmied.” The youth was taken to
the first precinct for questioning.
Police said he probably would be
charged w^h housebreaking.
J. H. FITZGERALD DIES
James H. Fitzgerald, 63, mechanic
of the Washington Gas Light Co.
and lifelong resident of this city, died
Friday of a heart attack at his home,
5022 Illinois avenue. Funeral services
will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday in St.
Gabriel's Catholic Church. Burial
will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Mr. Fitzgerald is survived by two
brothers, William and John Fitzgerald,
and three sisters. Mrs. Mary Alice
Robinson, Miss Margaret Fitzgerald
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and Mrs. Anna Cummings. HU
His parents were the late Thomas
and Margaret Fitzgerald.
Held in Chicken Thefts.
WARRENTON, Va., April 11 (Spe
cial).—Three white men, accused by
police of burning sulphur under hens’
roosts to render the fowU uncon
scious before stealing them, have
been arrested by State Patrolman Tom
Stafford and Sergt. Carr of Culpeper.
The men are in jail at Culpeper.
VANDENBURG DECLINES
OPEN DEBATE ON CANAL
Refuses to Meet Engineer of Proj
ect in Public Discussion
of Question.
fcj the Associated Press.
Senator Vandenberg. Republican,
of Michigan, opponent of the pro
posed Florida ship canal, declined yes
terday to meet Harry H. Buckman,
consulting engineer for the Ship Canal
Authority, in a publip debate on the
waterway issue.
Buckman, asserting the Republican
Senator misrepresented the facts about
the canal, challenged Vandenberg to
debate.
Answering him, the Senator wrote:
"I have already debated It to a con
clusion on the floor of the Senate. If
any further debates are necessary, they
will be held in the same place. lam
quite prepared to mee the issue in
this appropriate forum at any time.” «
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